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Worldsensing actively takes part in several publicly funded research projects in close collaboration with academia and other industrial partners at EU level.

This allows our company to maintain close contact with many of the latest technological advances, as can be seen in the list below.

As a leader in R&D with an ongoing focus on innovation, Worldsensing has been recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness as an Innovative SME. The aim of this seal is to give the companies value and to identify them as an innovative enterprise. This recognition concentrates on different innovative aspects, which in general are related to qualified employability, funding sources, acknowledgments and results of innovative actions, among others.

Thanks to the efforts of many years, Worldsensing is now a certified company where talented technicians are developing new technology everyday to support stakeholders on overcoming societal challenges and public authorities on improving citizens` quality of life.

If you are seeking a company with an extensive track-record in designing innovative IoT solutions, Worldsensing would be a valuable partner for your future initiatives.

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Water critical infrastructures (CIs) are essential for human society, life and health and they can be endangered by physical/cyber threats with severe societal consequences. To address this, STOP-IT assembles a team of major Water Utilities, industrial technology developers, high tech SMEs and top EU R&D providers. It organizes communities of practice for water systems protection to identify current and future risk landscapes and to co-develop an all-hazards risk management framework for the physical and cyber protection of water CIs. STOP-IT solutions are based on: a) mature technologies improved via their combination and embedment (incl. public warning systems, smart locks) and b) novel technologies whose TRL will be increased (incl. cyber threat incident services, secure wireless sensor communications modules, context-aware anomaly detection technologies; fault-tolerant control strategies for SCADA integrated sensors, high-volume real-time sensor data protection via blockchain schemes; authorization engines; irregular human detection using new computer vision methods and WiFi and efficient water contamination detection algorithms).

Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) are an important driver for innovation and growth in the EU. SMEs also stand to gain the most from innovative technology, because it is complicated and costly for them to set-up and run ICT in the traditional way. Taking into account cyber-security, SMEs do not always understand all the risks and business consequences for the development of technologies without the adequate level of protection against cybercrime. SMESEC consortium is proposing to develop a cost-effective framework composed of specific cyber-security tool-kit to support SMEs in managing network information security risks and threats, as well as in identifying opportunities for implementing secure innovative technology in the digital market; for this consortium, it is important that SMEs do not only look at cyber-security as an obstacle, but also they understand the business opportunity beyond it.

The project contemplates the development and integration of technologies for the monitoring and interpretation of the acoustic emissions generated during the normal operation of bogies through a sensor of monitoring, diagnosis and structural forecasting formed by a local device and a asset mangement platform.

RADIO-OIL project aims to integrate radio transducers into the Spidernano product, and thus provide real-time data transmission from seismic streams. So far, a novel communications protocol has been successfully defined for taking advantage of Time Synchronized Channel Hopping (TSCH) techniques. This step forward has made it possible to develop a communication stack that can deliver streams of seismic data to the central control station from hundreds of Spidernano devices, which are deployed in a real monitoring scenario.

PARTNERS:

WORLDSENSING SL

mF2C

BUDGET:

Project: 5.440.287,50 €
Grant: 5.440.287,50 €

With the number of devices exponentially growing globally, new cloud and fog models are expected to emerge, paving the way for shared, collaborative, extensible mobile, volatile and dynamic compute, storage and network infrastructure. When put together, cloud and fog computing create a new stack of resources, which we refer to as Fog-to-Cloud (F2C), creating the need for a new, open and coordinated management ecosystem. The mF2C proposal sets the goal of designing an open, secure, decentralized, multi-stakeholder management framework, including novel programming models, privacy and security, data storage techniques, service creation, brokerage solutions, SLA policies, and resource orchestration methods.

The main aim of CIPSEC is to create a unified security framework that orchestrates state-of-the-art heterogeneous security products to offer high levels of protection in IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) departments of CIs. As part of this framework CIPSEC will offer a complete security ecosystem of additional services that can support the proposed technical solutions to work reliably and at professional quality. These services include vulnerability tests and recommendations, key personnel training courses, public-private partnerships (PPPs) forensics analysis, standardization and protection against cascading effects. All solutions and services will be validated in three pilots performed in three different CI environments (transportation,health, environment). CIPSEC will also develop a marketing strategy for optimal positioning of its solutions in the CI security market.

“Sustainable Cellular Networks Harvesting Ambient Energy” project aims to design sustainable protocols, architectures and algorithms for next generation 5G cellular networks. The overall purpose of this initiative, is to allow mobile systems and especially their constituting base stations, femto cells, small-cells, mobile devices and sensors to take advantage of energy-harvesting from ambient sources and renewable sources. In addition, SCAVENGE will set up a training network for early-stage researchers (ESRs), who will contribute to the design and implementation of sustainable 5G mobile networks in Europe, and lead the related key scientific, technological, and industrial initiatives.

The migration of the global population to urban areas has strained the resources of cities worldwide. To address these challenges governments are turning to Smart Cities to provide sustainable infrastructure that meets the needs of citizens. The smart city industry is projected to reach 1.56 $ trillion by 2020. Smart city initiatives are focusing on smart parking systems to enhance regulated parking spots with occupancy sensors that provide additional features & services to parking management companies as well as drivers by reducing time spent looking for parking, traffic and CO2 emissions. FastPrk-2 is an innovative full featured smart on-street parking solution, featuring enhanced services resulting from almost 100% accurate occupancy sensors & a system architecture that provides cutting edge HW-based sensor technology & SW-based tools that optimize transport management through innovative applications that analyze diverse parking related data, minimizing maintenance costs and operational processes.

PARTNERS:

WORLDSENSING SL.

UNISERVER

BUDGET:

Project: 4.815.810 €
Grant: 4.815.810 €

“Universal Micro-Server Ecosystem by Exceeding the Energy and Performance Scaling Boundaries” project is s a “Research and Innovation Action” (RIA project) that targets the development of a universal micro-server architecture and software ecosystem. UniServer will facilitate the evolution of the Internet from an infrastructure where data is aggregated to centralized data-centres to an infrastructure where data are handled in a distributed and localized manner close to the data sources. UniServer will realize its bold goal by greatly improving the energy efficiency, performance, dependability and security of the current state-of-the-art micro-servers, while reinforcing the supported system software.

The goal of OUTSMART is to contribute to the Future Internet (FI) by developing five innovative ecosystems. These ecosystems will facilitate the creation of a large variety of pilot services and technologies, which will in turn contribute to optimised supply and access to services and resources in urban areas. This will provide more sustainable utility provision and, through increased efficiency, reduce strain on resources and the environment.